Jarle's draw-log

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Save Flash-videos you just have seen or are watching on internet in a super-easy way:

In KDE 4.2 with folder-view POWER.

Watch (tip: remember to tick off watch in high quality if it is possible on youtube) or let the whole flash-video download (let the progress bar reach the end) in the browser using Flash-player. Don't close the tab in the browser if you want to save it.

Drag the video from the folder-view-directory to another folder-view-directory on your desktop or a directory in dolphin and select; copy here.

Right-click the video in your destination-directory and rename it with a .flv extension (like somename.flv).

The video will remain in the folder-view-directory as long as it is open in the browser. Close the tab, select another video or close the browser; and it will disappear after a wile.

How to set this up(this is also super-easy and can be done without need for a keyboard)Do this only once:

(You have to have Adobe-Flash-player working in the browser and have a KDE4.2 desktop)

Find the "cashew" in the upper right corner of your screen and click unlock screen-elements if it is locked and then add screen-element.

Find the Folder-view in the list and drag one into the desktop (tip: drag one more witch you can use as a destination-directory for the videos).

Move your mouse over the newly created directory-view to select the setup-tool.

After seeing tips on how to save online videos in linux again, I remembered the first time I saw this tip. I thought it was brilliant and tested it back then once. Since then; I know I had the power to save flash-videos, but didn't because it was to many step to do and that interfered with what I was doing; browsing the web. Since I newly discovered the power of folder-views and saw the tip again yesterday, I thought this could be more comforting to use wile doing the casual browsing.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Long time since the last blogg. I don't use Inkscape so much during summer. When using it again in the autumn I do some playing/experimentation and some off-topic illustrations first.

After Christmas I was ready to get on track again and finished up the drawings I left half-done last spring, to warm up. After some productive weeks I'm now getting closer to reach my first goal of have a complete set of illustrations for the iconic-view of Kalzium. It's only missing nine illustrations (elements; 63-71) in the Kalzium I use to for testing. This is the first half of what done lately, contributed in January and February, second part will follow soon and the rest (9) will hopefully be completed within a couple of month (or sooner).

Google summer Code for Kalzium: There is a Kalzium beautification idea on the; Summer of Code/2009/Ideas I really hope this can be realized as it can make Kalzium appeal to a broader group of users.

I was thinking to also replace salt with stable soap because reacting fat with NaOH will make it solid and reacting fat with KOH will make soft or liquid soap.

This is a Parker 51 ink-pen even if its tip looks like a roller-pen. Palladium is one of the metals inside the catalytic converter.

Mercury in many of these energy-saving light bulbs, so don't throw them in ordinary garbage and "run" away if they crush.

Argon gas between the glasses in energy efficient windows.

Osmium needle on 78-rpm record-player; the phonograph.

After my last blog-post about graphics for plasmoids/widgets; I ended up getting a SVN account (this is at first very scary for a non-developer). Blackboard, whiteboard, projector-screen and window -SVGs is available in: trunk/playground/artwork/Oxygen/jarle/ for anyone interested.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Dedicate this post to promote the use of genuine -looking windows on the desktop. Lets put windows in every homes desktop directory (well windows is not useful for every computer user, but maybe to some?)

This is a follow up on previous post. SVGs done (the windows, curtains and drop screen), no code from me. The pretend to be wallpaper is taken from OS/2 and only modified by me and is therefore not Free. Content in the window (the view is from photos I took today from our windows) is not in the SVGs.

I call them: My "~/desktop/windows"

Light conditions should depend on where it is brightest inside or outside. In these examples I have some of each, above is it bright outside and lots of highlights and shadow from the handle.

Dark outside: no highlight in the windows-frames (above).

More light from outside than on the inside (above).

Suggestions for usage:

Kalzium: Information about an chemical experiment written on the interior drop screen and a You-Tube/movie showing someone doing the experiment outside the window when the drop screen is rolled up.

Web cam: show your own or a distant web cam in a window to keep an eye on: your kids play in the garden, home surveillant camera or web cast.

Weather widget: Look out the window to see the weather information.

Photo frame widget: show local or online pictures.

Movie/TV widget: You-Tube, net-broadcast.

"insert your Idea here" or anything else.

I hope for some magic code for these, to bring them to plasmoids/widgets. Colors can easy be adjusted, let me know what you want, and the silly "logo" wears off when washed;-)

Monday, May 19, 2008

Example uses: for showing content with white or pastel color text (Kalzium - did you know) or simple drawings.

White board

Example uses: for showing content with black or typical white-board-colors on text or simple drawings.

Projector screen closed

For saving space on desktop when not in use?

Projector screen ready

For showing full color content like pictures movies or similar.

Projector screen and blackboard combinedblackboard active

Could be used to show different content in one widget were user could interact to select between two modes (example: text on the blackboard and illustration on the screen). A toggle between modes could be a mouse click in area A (below).

Projector screen and blackboard combinedscreen active

The screen mode for full color possibilities on the content displayed.Interactive area suggestions:A - toggle between screen and blackboard contentB - draw new/more contentC - clean up and start over again

Functionality mentioned above is only suggestions from me. Use the drawings as you like. No interactions code exist from me and I can't code. I can help if code needs special content on the drawings, let me know what is needed.

Illustrations on this post is made in Inkscape: The blackboards, white-boards and projector-screens is the SVGs drawn by me. The stick-people-drawings on the first blackboard and on the white-board is early inkscape work by my (by then about 4 or 5 year old) son. The pretending to be desktop-background is an old OS/2 wallpaper heavy modified by me.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Two more illustrations; steel strings for phosphorus and a digger for manganese. The digger is drawn from a photo I took a couple of years ago of a old digger (Åkerman) belonging to my brother. The light in the photo was from the wrong side so I mirrored It.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

I take the opportunity to start creating as many icons/drawings as possible now when it is winter and I got the time. The plan is to finish them up later when I don't have so much continuous time to spend on them. These (Iodine and Indium) however was finished some time ago. Lots of unfinished drawings laying in my desktop makes it easy to find something to do.

One drawing is bothering me a little;I was planning drawing a car for Palladium to illustrate a Catalytic converter. If I draw a normal car the catalytic part wont show, a car who is nice to draw and viewed partly from down-up is hard to find and if I draw only the Catalytic converter it may be hard to recognize. These thoughts have made me put this drawing on hold, but I have to start it now so any opinion is welcome. To summon up, I can:

draw a normal car and the part won't show

draw the part without the car

draw a car witch show the exhaust system from behind (the part is hidden in the front)

wait an uncertain time until I find a car I can take a photo of from the down-up (not my favorite now, since I have been doing only this until now and it may not happend)

Status rapport from me: mainly start working on new drawings, not so much work being done on finished them, and some times consumed by experimenting.